A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers. ~Kurdish Proverb
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At some point preoccupation with safety can get in the way of living full lives. ~Alan Hirsch
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Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ~Hungarian Proverb
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The footprint of the owner is the best manure. ~English Proverb
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Do not ask God to guide your footsteps if you are not willing to move your feet. ~English Proverb
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ~Greek Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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I'm a mixed race lad from Liverpool. I get to play a lot of hard characters, and some people perceive that's what I'm like, but it's great for me 'cos they're always the most interesting characters. ~Stephen Graham
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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Innovating economies expand and develop. Economies that do not add new kinds of goods and services, but continue only to repeat old work, do not expand much nor do they, by definition, develop. ~Jane Jacobs
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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Also, of course, for most of this time most Americans thought of America as a white country with, at best, only a very segregated and subordinate role for blacks. ~Samuel P. Huntington
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If we are to perpetuate the state, we must not only produce citizens, but good citizens; men and women of sound bodies, clear minds and clean souls. ~Arthur Capper
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All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together. ~Stephen Charnock
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If you want to know how much I miss you, try to catch rain drops. The ones you catch is how much you miss me, and the ones you miss is how much I miss you.
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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We can't afford as a nation; not because of money but because of our social fabric; to have large numbers of people who are not working. ~Donna Shalala
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Advice given in the midst of a crowd, is loathsome. ~Arabic Proverb
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Nothing got without pains but an ill name and long nails. ~Scottish Proverb
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